Innovation - Matches

What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms` innovative activities? Does the increase in competition arising from trade reform..

For the 9th commemoration of the Development Policy Research Month (DPRM), the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) chose the theme "Ba..

The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country. Aside from the agriculture sector`s crucial role in ensuring food security for the Filipin..

Do firms in the Philippines innovate? Where do they source their technological knowledge in doing so? And what is the significance of industrial clust..

In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation, traditionally associated with res..

What are the factors that make some firms innovate while others do not? Does location matter? Or firm size? How about the presence of more female work..

The performance of the Philippine automotive industry has steadily improved after the Asian crisis. However, relative to the performance of the automo..

Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that impr..

Regional production networks and local production linkages are important not only for the generation of industrial activity through investment flows b..

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic growth and development. For them to compete in the regional and global markets,..

The economic reform process in the Philippines was accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. The reforms were found to have yielded positive results in term..

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and rural finance markets. Innovatio..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that enable microfinance institutions ..

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and productivity. This paper documents the ch..

The shift to a market-oriented credit and financial policy was expected to spur rural financing by the private sector that would help usher growth in ..